Extreme PaintBrawl is a separate BUILD game, a commercial CD product. /!\ Warning: The game as it is, was not really finished. Avoid paying more than a
dollar if you need to have this.

The 1st Non-Violent 3D SHOOTER!

Grab
Your Marker & Strap On Your Goggles!

Select from 8 original Sheridan Markers & 5 Unique battlefields. Play alone,
On-line with friends or as a squad member. Purchase supplies from the Crosman
ammo depot, Grab your Camo & get ready for the ultimate interactive paint ball
experience on your PC!

Description

This game was a project that the programmer barely had any time to even finish the game. It wasn't even
finished at release time. Publisher HeadGames only gave them two weeks to
develop the game. The two-week time limit was up and they were in the
process of replacing the Duke Nukem 3D bot AI. Three patch's where made
weeks following with v1.91 being the last.

Extreme PaintBrawl is an altered Duke v1.5 game engine built
under a integrated windows frontend and pre game setup. The alteration of the game code
and the win32 frontend was done by Carlos Cuello. (Primary Programmer for
Extreme PaintBrawl July 1998-October 1998. CREATIVE CARNAGE, LLC Mesa,
AZ ) Created all the in-game
aspects of the video game Extreme PaintBrawl, published by HeadGames inc.,
and licensed by Sheridan Air Guns. Used the Build Engine as a base, and
programmed paint gun and paint ball physics that matched the specifications
of Sheridan paint guns. Programmed realistic human movement, as well as a
path-node artificial intelligence system, and capture-the-flag team game
play modes. Maintained a seamless communication with a front-end menu
system.

This game is a great demonstration of function. Other Build games would
benefit
from a Win32 frontend and Win32 setup (communicates with the DOS portion of the game
perfectly, however designed for Win95, may work with WinXP SP3.) and a
separate game engine for network play. The Win32 frontend saves
data that the DOS Game Engine can read. Such as the team you
selected and gun, ammo, air. Also the map you choose to play in
GAME.DAT. When the game is finished a RETURN.DAT is written by
the game.exe, this a then read by the Win32 front-end:
paintball.exe.

Features / Technology

Game:

Display HUD/player interface:

HUD: is hard coded, art is not

Heart: your stamina. Not sure if it's time based or player based activities. Heart beats
faster the more tired you are. You will eventually move at a reduced rate.

Ammo: readout plus a row of four 9999's that don't change.

Team bot readout: indicates if they're out of the game (a paint
splat next to there icon), if they're shot or stuck (grayed
out).

Map: No zoom, no top view of player.

No External View

No weapon (one gun per player) or item selection (supplies for guns are automated,
including a timed reload)

Night vision (N) functions, palette is not setup for such a device.

Player view bobbing (added in net game v1.8 similar effect to the one in Duke3D v1.0)

No crosshair

Art:

Four frames for each opponent. visually which way an opponent faces is difficult to reckon
(multiplayer).

Weapons: all weapons were set to the specs and performance of real-life
Crossman Splat Ball guns. Physics from these real life "weapons" is used. Five guns (3 are
added in v1.91 using the same art), two color paintballs (blue & red) and air.

Items: none in game (pre game settings, see Weapons above). Ammo is reloaded
automatically. Simulates pouring in balls, a timed feature.

Practice: allows you to use a single player with all weapons. The purpose is basically
to test the weapons out and to explore a field before a game. There are no enemies or
bots.

CTF: two flags, capture once and you win (NAM style).

Elimination: single play, your team (up to 8 including you) Vs 20 bots.

Pick-up Matches: allows you to join up with a random team and play the full game (won't
affect your current tournament team).

Single play: Select team members, purchase items/supplies, team fee's. Each bot gets a
single gun, and you can take control of each bot, via the numbered keys (if a bot
is shooting,
this feature is disabled temporarily).

AI Helper Bots: they protect and locate enemies automatically. Tactical bot AI included.
Waypoints and locator following. Much improved in v1.91 of PaintBrawl. They can capture a
flag. It's very nice to have free roaming enemies for a change. One major flaw that
needs to be fixed is the enemies trying to shoot through walls and unbreakable glass.
Bots are activated at start of a game.

Maps: five fields in the themes desert, wooded, space, medieval and urban.

Online: standard IPX network (in v1.0 you can host a game over an IPX network, but the
dialog box won't let you actually connect to someone else's game. This means that you can
play over a network, just not with each other (full support added in 1.91), virtual-LAN
(peer to peer) and modem.

Installing: uses an install wizard. Includes an uninstall feature in the Add/Remove
programs dialog. The game's is about 30MB when installed.

Auto-detect modem

Pre-game equipping (before entering Build)

This game supports newer sound cards much better than other Build games.

It even has CD Audio! (Todd Duane, who sent Head Games his demo
tracks.)

Play next match (season play): upon trying to enter the next match
(first) , I receive an error indicating all team members must have a
gun. Then it kicks me back into the store. But all team members have
guns, air, and paint balls. I also made sure I had enough cash to pay
them per game... no season play is possible and no workaround (wasn't
fixed in v1.91). Play a Pick-up match.

Pick-up Match: you can actually execute a random match by launching
the game.exe file from your game folder.

Art: some common missing elements can be restored with added art or
correct alignment

Maps: maps can be touched up (most major map problems where touched
up in v1.91)

CD Audio: doesn't work properly at first: play with soundcard
settings.

Switch bot: if you switch to a character that's stuck in a wall, you
get "squished," and the entire team dies.

Control setup: not all the actions are on to the mouse list thus you
are unable to assign certain items to the mouse buttons (like jump).

Season: if you start a season, exit the game(saves the season), and
then re-enter the game, the season will load but you're unable to view
the schedule. No workaround

Sounds: shooting sound stops on an occasion, while the others will
work.

Weapons

Items

NONE

Enemies

Shown is the Blue team, palette changes the other team to red.

Cheat Codes

Simply pause the game and type the code in.

All Duke v1.5 codes should work, however some may perform erratically. The normal cheats
do activate Duke items (nothing visual or audible of course, since portions of the old
code in the CONs are not used).